Golf Course Maintenance Update

January proved to be a month with less than average rainfall. We were able to get out and mow the golf course much more than normal for this time of the year. Our average for January is around 5.50 inches. As of today, January 31, we are right around 3.75 inches for the month. We had a total of 14 days with recordable rain.

January was a busy month for the crew as we took on a couple of projects around the golf course. First, as you will see by the slides below, we are in the final stages of finishing the drainage on #5 fairway. This area will get some new sod over the ditch lines and will steadily continue to dry out as the drains start to take off excess water.

#5 Fairway

#5 Fairway looking back toward tee

#5 Fairway

As many of you know, especially our lady members, the number one ladies tee is a very small and unimpressive first tee. In an effort to correct this, the crew extended the tee to the right and back just a little bit. It is now a much bigger and a more impressive first tee for our lady members and guests. It will remain closed until we can get some new growth established as temperatures warm up this spring.

#1 Ladies tee

Another project  has been some additions to our irrigation system in the rough on hole #13. We are extending some sprinkler heads into some rough areas that tend to dry up in the summer and cause balls to bounce pretty hard toward the out of bounds area. This improvement will help to maintain some needed turf in these areas with the hopes of keeping balls from bouncing hard to the left and potentially out of bounds. It also will help this area aesthetically during our summer months.

#13 Rough irrigation

In addition to these projects our landscape crew has been busy sprucing up some planter beds around the golf course.

#4 Cart staging area

#7 Tee 

Let's cross our fingers and hope we have a dry February and spring will be here before we know it.

Golf Course Maintenance Update

Despite the cold and wet weather we've been having, the golf course maintenance crew has been busy finishing up some work on holes # 3 and #5. We've recently had stumps removed and completed some ground leveling. Our goal  is to continue to smooth out the ground and develop turf in both of these areas.

#5 Stump was removed and leveled off

Below are pictures of the area to the left of #3 tee. The area is getting prepped for seeding this spring. 

In addition to preparing these areas for seeding we have been busy edging the cart paths next to greens and tee complexes. This is very time consuming and difficult work, mostly done with a small edger and shovels. Once completed in these areas,we will be moving on to the fairway portions of the paths. 

Our next project will be putting in drainage in the middle of #5 fairway. We are targeting the landing zone at about the 150 yard marker and going up to about even with the fairway bunker on the left. This is expected to start next week Monday the 13th of January.